They lifted me up when I was sad.” For more than 1,000 years, dogs have pulled sleds across the Arctic for Inuit seal hunters and fishermen. But this winter, in the town of Ilulissat, around 186 miles ...

Jørgen Kristensen, a Greenlandic dog sled champion, reflects on the impact of climate change on his homeland. Melting ice and warming temperatures threaten traditional practices like dog sledding, ...

Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most ...

Greenland’s thousand-year-old tradition at risk due to climate change - ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead.

Chilling in the Arctic: Shane explores the role of how sled dogs in Resolute Bay. They say dogs are man's best friend, but Inuit sled dogs take it to a whole new level. They're not just companions, ...

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(Reuters) - The government of Canada on Saturday apologized to the Inuit of northern Quebec for the mass killing of sled dogs in the 1950s and 1960s, which devastated communities by depriving them of ...